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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 20
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1T’m terribly
wotried’
By BRIAN DEAN
unaway British di
over the telep
R
Office official Harold
“Tt all sounds very
have absolutely no id
although I am certain
ears.”
Mr. Philby, now a fourn-
ist, has been reported
missing from his home in
Beirut for five weeks.
His American-born wife
Eleanor received a cable from
Cairo over the weekend. Part
of it said:
“AL going well. Arrange-
ments our reunion proceed-
Ing satisfactorily. Letters
with all details following
soon. Love Kim Philby.”
The cabie indicated it had
been handed In at Cairo at
3.38 on Friday morning.
‘I'm worried’
But the British Embassy in
ae
Se
Cairo said the last time Mr.
Philby was known to visit the
United Arab Republic was in
July last year.
aid the tirst
Guy Burgess
news he had of Mc. Phifoy's dit
Appearince was on the BBC this
ornithine
ST heard part of the broadeast
abd just caught the name of my
ii eng at the end of the news.’
Si
“I am terribly worried. Have
you heard any more news?“
When T told Mr, Burgess of
Moscow. I have not heard from him
plomat Guy Burgess told me
hone from
that he was “terribly worried”
appearance of his friend and for
Moscow today
by the dis-
mer Foreign
“Kim” Philby.
mysterious,” he said, “I
ea where he
could be,
aking for
for several
ae
he is not m
Seco Ee
GUY BURGESS
“First news heard on radio.”
the mysterious cable Mrs, Philby
receved from Ca.ro he sail
“Oh. This looks quite serious
Mr. Philby was. exonerated
seven years ago as being the
Third “Man in the Burgess-
Maclean affair
He had been a Firs: Secretary
in Washington when Burgess was
a Second Secretary there. Donald
Maciean, who " defecied ta
Moscow with Burgess, had
already left Washington before;
Mr Philby arrived.
Mr. Macmillan, who was then
Foreign Secretary, said he had
no reason {0 ‘conclude that
Philby had at anytime
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